Unveiling the Nature of Scam Forced Criminality in Southeast Asia

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Luong, Hai Thanh
Nguyen, Chat
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2024
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Nearly five recent years in the post-pandemic of COVID-19, thousands of victims in Southeast Asian and beyond have been trapped in the closed cycle of pig-butchering operations in Cambodia compounds. As new forms of scam-forced criminality via trafficking in persons operated by Chinese-related syndicates, traffickers use social platforms to pose as job recruiters and post fraudulent employment opportunities in cyberspace. Unlike other traffickers, however, scam operations target educated victims with exploitable skills and promise attractive salaries for customer service jobs, IT, computer programming, and related industries. Our study combined 10 selected cases (2018-2023) and interviews with Vietnamese police officers to analyse the nature of the scam-forced Vietnamese labour (SFVL) operated by the Chinese cyber-enabled crimes (CCEC). Findings demonstrate the structured networks of the multiple layers in one scam syndicate with Chinese leading with their accomplices, either Vietnamese or others. Also, utilising the crime script analysis, this research illustrates what and how the CCEC groups established the step-by-step process to target SFVL by recruiting Vietnamese in internal/external Vietnam territories, mostly in Cambodia.

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ANZSOC 2024: Navigating Variance: Intersectionality in Criminology Abstract Book

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Causes and prevention of crime

Cybercrime

Organised crime

Criminology

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Luong, HT; Le, CN, Unveiling the Nature of Scam Forced Criminality in Southeast Asia, ANZSOC 2024: Navigating Variance: Intersectionality in Criminology Abstract Book, 2024, pp. 100-100